Moles don’t usually get involved in politics. They’re happy to let all the politicians argue for hours with each other on the surface, whilst they just go about their business digging tunnels, burrowing holes and generally causing a nuisance.

In fact, whilst everyone is distracted talking about Brexit, pensions and the economy, moles can take advantage of no-one watching them, and run wild across gardens, fields and farms.

But then it all changed

Then Jeremy Corbyn announced a tax on gardens.

Plans for the land tax policy state that instead of council tax, people would pay tax based on the unused land they own. By unused, that means unoccupied. So gardens are unused land.

At first, moles were jumping for joy – a bigger tax for those with large gardens would mean the homeowners would have less money to spend on the garden and on mole catchers! Let them waste all their money on tax, and moles could go on running around without anyone chasing them.

But then the deeper news hit – and it sent moles into a frenzy. If there was to be a tax on land, it could mean all those luscious garden and wonderful fields that moles just love to roam across could be sold. Sold to developers to build on.

And that would mean diggers churning up their homes. Buildings going on top of their habitat and food sources.

That would not do.

Mole hills following Corbyn everywhere

So moles took up arms. They united in a force of destruction, to follow Jeremy Corbyn wherever he went. Look carefully, and you’ll see mole hills in all the fields and gardens that Corbyn passes close too.

They are causing as much damage as they possibly can to instigate anger at Corybn and the Labour party.

They will not stand for a tax on their land. They might be small, but when they’re aggravated they are vicious, and this political issue has struck a cord.